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Denier Bracteate - Henry VI of Swinrode
| Issuer | Hersfeld, Abbey of |
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| Year | 1292-1300 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Obverse description | Frontal bust of Saint Boniface, patron of Hersfeld Abbey, depicted in ecclesiastical vestments and wearing a mitre, set within a beaded inner circle. The figure holds a crosier or staff in the left hand and raises the right hand in a gesture of benediction. The design is rendered in the flat, single-sided bracteate technique characteristic of late thirteenth-century German ecclesiastical coinage. A Latin legend naming the saint runs along the outer circumference, partially legible on the irregular flan. The overall style reflects the provincial hammered workmanship of the Hersfeld Abbey mint. |
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| Obverse lettering | S BONIFACIVS P.-K. |
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Hersfeld Abbey's bracteate issues of the late thirteenth century were produced under the peculiar ecclesiastical minting rights the abbey had held since the Ottonian period, rights that were increasingly contested by rival secular lords as imperial authority fragmented. Henry VI of Swinrode served as abbot during a period of chronic financial pressure on the house, and the thin, single-sided fabric of this denier bracteate reflects not just regional convention but genuine economy of silver. Berger 1269 is among the scarcer documented attributions in this series.